Women and Men (NP)

[jd]

Thanks for the link!  It makes it sound as though I'm not necessarily
at fault for not getting everything that's going on at the moment.

"As the novel progresses and this information accretes in a non-linear
fashion, the reader must discover for him- or herself the
correspondences - or, in Tom LeClair's term, the "homologies" -
between characters (153). Readers must find out for themselves the
solutions to their questions concerning the characters and plot,
thereby becoming, in a key phrase from Women and Men, the
"breather-angels" that help the narrator in the construction of the
novel's expansive universe of relationships."

So I guess I'm going to let myself go and see if I'm any more with it
in the next couple of hundred pages.  I won't lie, if I'm still
baffled at that point I may have to give up.  What he says about the
"Ship Rock" chapter makes me want to plunge forward, however.